Hailey Duff hails from Houston, Texas. She discovered acting through ballet when she landed a role in the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company performance of The Nutcracker. By the age of 12, she appeared in the two-part miniseries True Women and in Goldie Hawn’s directorial debut Hope, both filmed in Texas. Haylie was soon out in California pursuing acting full-time.
Duff went on to land roles in such films as Addams Family Reunion, The Newman Shower and Dreams in the Attic, as well as guest-starring roles in the television series Third Watch, Boston Public, The Amanda Show and Chicago Hope. In 2004, she appeared in I Love Your Work, That’s So Raven and recently co-starred as Summer in the cult-hit film Napoleon Dynamite.
